World History in a Nutshell

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

The classroom is dimly lit and there's a projecter set up to a laptop.

"Good morning," says Daniel, beaming all around. "Today, we're going to be touching on Ancient Egypt. There's packets on your desks with information about mummies and health and --" His face clouded and he frowned slightly. "gods. You can look at all that in your leisure, but first, I'm going to talk to you a bit about my dig in Egypt this summer."

Daniel has a power point presentation and everything which would have been done had the mun not fallen asleep yesterday. It's mostly pictures of sand. And more sand. And yes, you guessed it, sand. Daniel's highly enthusiastic about it, however, as he babbles on quite happily for half the lecture.

"Okay, for the second half, I apologize to those of you who aren't used to computers and also to those who took Egyptian archaeology last year, as you'll have already played a couple of these games. There's a choice of three to play, so have fun and talk to me if you have any questions or need a hand."


Build a pyramid

Make a Mummy

Death in Sakkara


[[ooc: Huge apologies for this being so late up; work and calling schools got in the way this morning and I wasn't at all functional last night to get it up then like I was planning]]

Comments

Sign in (09/11)

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

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Re: Sign in (09/11)

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly signed in.

Re: Sign in (09/11)

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad signed in. And in collapsy fashion, too.

Daniel's lecture

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

It's long, it's boring. Take the time to nap or pass notes; he won't notice.

Or you could listen and take notes and even ask questions on any material you like and watch me bluff it omg!

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly took a few notes, but she was more often just doodling in her notebook. It looked like she was taking notes though. If you didn't look at her notebook, that is.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad scribbled down the notes that seemed important:

Sand.

Sand.

Hey. More Sand.

Sand that is slightly more yellow.

Sand that is slightly more brown.

There is a snake in that sand.

Pyramid? Nope. More sand.

But he's footnoted the important notes with things that resemble other notes that might actually have some significance.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim's own notes may have indicated that he has had it with these [expletive deleted] snakes in this [expletive deleted] sand.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Lyra happened to glance over at Chad's notes and was grateful for the acting ability that let her turn a guffaw of laughter in to a not very convincing coughing fit.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie is trying to write down everything new at once, because she didn't know all those things about the Incas, although the mummification process is old hat, and it's all so interesting, and finally she has to ask, "Dr. Jackson? Do you think it's possible that, maybe, there could be an archaeological site on Fandom Island? Perhaps? Only I heard there used to be pirates here...."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim was trying to figure out who to copy notes off of, his roommate or Evie. He waffled for a while before scootching slightly closer to Evie and trying to stay awake in class.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[smartestone]

Hermione takes very careful, detailed notes. A couple pages of them, actually.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair took notes and then after checking out Evie and Hermione, took more notes.

Geek pride can make a person crazy.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[likethegun]

Sam would have been content to just write "SAND!" a lot, but he was determined to take at least as many notes as Blair, Evie, and Hermione, so he ended up getting a bit more elaborate.

Play games!

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

The fun part of the lesson. Providing you can work a computer :)

Re: Play games!

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly started with the mummy game since she had played the other two in class last spring. Oh, yay, she lost two lives, but did get it right in the end.

Re: Play games!

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

Broots continued playing the games until he got perfect scores. He spent the rest of his time trying to find the source code for them.

Re: Play games!

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

Dean grumbled as he kept running out of food and welfare supplies over and over and over again trying to get the goddamn pyramid built. He may possibly have been sneaking covert glances at Evie's screen every now and again, attempting to figure out the answers the easy way. It was just a game, after all.

Re: Play games!

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair had played all of these games in classes with Dr. Jackson last semester. Unfortunatly the cast kept getting in the way and there was still no union for the pyramid workers so his scores weren't perfect.

Re: Play games!

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron failed to build a pyramid but apparently was really good at making mummies. Yay!

Talk to Dr. Jackson

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

He's listening.

Re: Talk to Dr. Jackson

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim approached after class wearing his 'talking to teachers' face. "Excuse me, sir."

Re: Talk to Dr. Jackson

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair came up and held out a pen to Dr. Jackson. "Could you sign my cast (http://lovechildblair.livejournal.com/25002.html?thread=371882#t371882), man?"

OOC

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

For I am done.

In more ways than one *resists urge to sleep*

Re: OOC

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

*notices from icon that Daniel apparently gives class in the buff now*

*is sorry she didn't sign up for the class*